A Post From Evelyn, Eleven Months

[same_sky]

Dear Internets,

It has been a long time since I posted in Mama's journal but that is because I am very busy and do not have time for such silly things as computers. Also, I do not think Mommy and Daddy have time for them, either. They have far too much to do. For example, they need to carry me around a lot and show me things, preferably outside. My favorite thing recently was going to the game farm to look at all the animals.

I used my big blue eyes to great advantage last week and I conned my daddy into taking me for a ride on the lawn mower. He wouldn't go very fast, and we stayed on the driveway (I didn't know driveways needed mowed?) but it was fun! I want to go again soon!

Granny came to visit last week and that was lots of fun too. I don't particularly like Mommy or Daddy when Granny is around because she is much cooler than they are. Look at what she let me do! Mommy shrieked when Granny sat me down in the grass, and then she ran for the camera. She is dumb sometimes. Grass is fun! I like grass a lot. Also, dead leaves, dandelions and dirt. And we went to the store and Granny wore me in the carrier Mama made! That was fun! Granny couldn't believe how light I felt in it.. relatively speaking. How come everyone talks about how big I am? Are they calling me fat?

Mommy made me a pair of pants. Please tell her not to do that again.

I do lots of fun stuff now. I am not keen on walking yet, but I will stand unassisted for a couple of seconds at a time. I imitate sounds--I can go "ssssssssshhhh" like a bee! I put things in the bucket and take them out again, and I am beginning to see the point of stacking things. I like stuff unstacked a lot better, though. I like to hand toys to people but I would prefer not to actually give it to them, so the polite thing to do is to touch the item I am handing you and then let me have it back. Don't be stingy. I really am not that interested in eating big people food but I will try anything. I like cheese and bananas and cheese and dry cereal and cheese and cheese and potatoes and cheese and french fries and cheese, and did I mention cheese? Please can I have some cheese? I can say some words--mama, daddy, (nanny) granny and hi are my favorites, but I can say ti-ti for tiger, and have repeated a few different words now and then. I know a little sign language, too. I can do "milk" and "more", and I've done "daddy" and "cheese" before, too.

I also love to drink water. Mommy got this bright idea to try letting me have it straight from the cup. That was fun! I was still thirsty when we got done though. Drinking is complicated.

Love,
Evelyn

Comments

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

That video is so cute! Love the pis too :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thank you! She also mentioned something about you bringing Mina and Bijou over to play with her soon. I tried to explain the whole geography thing to her to explain why that might not happen but she got lost sometime around the concept of distance, as right now, it is all "here" and "not here". Kids are dopey. ;)

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww! She is so cute and getting big so fast! And talking! Wow. How did that happen?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! She is a monster but at least she's a cute one! M went in to pick her up Sunday morning and she saw him and grinned and said, "HI, DADEEE!" (Almost a sentence! Who needs verbs?!) Hard to believe what a difference eleven months can make! :)

[reebert.livejournal.com]

That video is so cute!! I love that she only tries to drink once it's empty! hehe

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, we liked that part too. I like to think that was her figuring out what to do there at the end but there are a couple more film clips after that one that disproves my theory.. hehe. Oh, well, we had fun!

[e11en.livejournal.com]

I loved her face when she accidentally splashed herself. CUTE!!

So Magnus will go by Daddy? G refused to be called that because it's too un-Swedish and he will, to this day, only respond to Papa. Sometimes after a long day of school Ingrid will slip and say Daddy and he pretends he didn't know she was talking to him.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I know! She was so cute about the whole thing, and you can tell that she KNOWS she is not allowed to do whatever it is she is doing! ;)

He's Daddy right now anyway. I think he has a problem with the way it sounds in English language to use Swedish words (just my theory, maybe I'm wrong.) When he speaks Swedish to her I think he usually calls himself Papa. It's a valid word in English, after all, but when he says something about Papa it is clearly sounding like the Swedish word and not the English. Also, she SAYS Dada and Dadeee so I think it would be hard for him (mentally!) to switch back now. He went in to pick her up Sunday morning and she saw him and grinned and said, "HI, DADEEE!" (Almost a sentence! Who needs verbs?!)

(Moment of Utter Truth and Selfishness: I have not encouraged him to call himself Papa more, like I usually would, because I don't like how it sounds as much as I like Daddy. hehe.)

[ms-jacket.livejournal.com]

I have to say, that's one reason why I like that my kids call my husband "Tata". I like the sound of "Dad" or "Daddy" too.

Pete watched that video with me and asked why Magnus was speaking English. I assumed it was because you were with but I wasn't sure.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yep, it was because I was there and also because of the audience for the video--I wanted to post it in part because of a thread on another message board I'm on. We are not quite as good about him speaking Swedish to her as we should be, though. If we're together, he speaks English to her 90% of the time, and then he speaks Swedish when he's alone with her 90% of the time. My own Swedish has fallen apart so we were talking just this weekend about how we need to keep it up.

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I love the video! The pictures are so pretty, I love all the nature ones of course :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Oh, and your new icon is really cute. :)

[ms-jacket.livejournal.com]

Another adorable video, I love watching cause and effect. Water= funny sensation

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love watching her figure things like that out too.